Pam Cargill

Located in the SF Bay Area, Pamela Cargill is the principal "chaolyst" at Chaolysti and provides marketing and operations support to small and growing renewable energy companies and green brands. She writes about issues facing the solar industry, marketing best-practices, and shines a light on renewable energy at work in her travels. Her background is in solar energy system design and new media marketing. Since 2006, she has been helping small solar companies grow into successful operations. Since relocating to the SF Bay Area from the NorthEast, she has quickly become plugged in to the pulse of the renewable energy entrepreneurial community. In her free time, she enjoys her sailboat-live-aboard & car-free lifestyle, year-round farmers markets, the urban vintners movement, and working in her Square-Foot Garden. Follow her on twitter: @chaolyst

April 18th, 2011

In Solar’s Coming of Age, What are the Next Opportunities?

Topics: CleanTech Events, Solar

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At the recent SolarTech Leadership Summit, which took place March 29 and 30 in Santa Clara, CA, 200 industry thought leaders from California and around the country gathered to assess the greatest needs in the industry and suggest concrete actions … Continue reading →

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March 30th, 2011

Themes from the Greentech Media Solar Summit: LCOE, Reliability, Scalability, and Utility Interoperability

Topics: CleanTech Events

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Greentech Media’s Solar Summit, held March 14 and 15 in Palm Springs, CA, was not your average solar industry event. With attendance coming in around 275 and mostly drawing higher-level management and executives, participants were expected to have a high … Continue reading →

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March 25th, 2011

Reflections on Then and Now: Growing up in the Growing Solar Industry from East to West Coast

Topics: Solar

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A sustainability advocate unexpectedly finds her career in the NorthEast’s young solar industry. She relocates to San Francisco years later to pursue the excitement and opportunity afforded by the cleantech cluster that the Bay Area is famous for. Continue reading →

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February 16th, 2011

Does Jeff Lyng’s Rise in ASES Suggest Turnover to Young Solar Leadership?

Topics: Solar

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Jeff Lyng’s appointment represents the arrival of young professionals in national leadership roles in solar and cleantech. Now, we can look up to someone just like us who has been engaged in professional activities related to sustainability and renewable energy right from the get-go and who has risen to a board-level position at a longstanding and prominent solar-energy non-profit. Continue reading →

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